Our Devotional Life
In his work on the Lutheran Reformation, Philip Schaff discusses the home-life of Martin Luther and writes: He began the day, after his private devotions, which were frequent and ardent, with reciting in his family the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and a Psalm. In a letter to Melanchthon, Veit Dietrich wrote concerning Luther during the Diet of Augsburg: No day passes that he does not give three hours to prayer, and those the fittest for study. Once I happened to...